Whitehall High School - Whitehall Yearbook (Whitehall, PA)

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Senator Robert F. Kennedy greets workers at a produce market during his campaign. After his assassination June 5. churches all over the nation had services where grieving Americans came to pray for the fallen leader. Achievement is shown in Governor Raymond Shafer's face as he signs into law the 1.7 billion dollar general appropriation bill to run the stale government for the new fiscal year. Another bill was passed which provided 4.3 million dollars to nonpublic schools. News ii

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King, Senator Kennedy Horrify Nation only three blocks away from the White House in W ashington, D.C. Garbage strikes in February in New York City and in Memphis in March left people living in unhealthy conditions. In October Carl Stokes was elected the first Negro mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, and in November, Negro Richard Hatcher was chosen Gary, Indiana, mayor. Robert McNamara resigned his post as Secretary of Defense in February and was elevated to the position of President of the World Bank. The political campaign for the nomination of candidate for president involved many aspirants on both the Democratic and Republican ticket. President Lyndon Johnson in March announced that he would not run again. A United States Navy intelligence ship, the U.S.S. Pueblo, was captured off the coast of North Korea in February. The Koreans claimed that the ship violated international sea law. Student demonstrations took place at many colleges especially at Columbia University in New York. The U.S.S. Scorpion was officially proclaimed lost at sea in June. On May 21 she filed her last “movement report before transiting the inadequately charted undersea mountains of the mid-Atlantic. During funeral services for her husband, the Negro civil rights leader. Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. sits in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. She staled taler that it was Gods will for his work to continue. One of the most touching moments during Senator Robert F. Kennedy 's funeral is his son. Robert Jr., placing his hand on his father's bier at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York Kennedy was shot June 5 at the Ambassador Hotel after winning the California primary. News 21

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Entire Township Has Centralized Post Office on MacArthur Road Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy delivers a speech by standing on a tree stump to persuade citizens to vote for him. Involvement is a key factor in the progress of today’s fast-moving world. An interest in local, state, national, and world affairs is developed through reading journalistic articles and listening to radio and television. More and more high school graduates each year attend colleges and universities. Lehigh County Community College had an enrollment of 500 within its first year of operation. A steel strike in September spread to Pennsylvania from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and New York. Whitehall Township merchants and the state highway department disputed the improvement of conditions on MacArthur Road. Several suggestions were offered in November. In March Whitehall residents received their first mail delivery. A centralized post office was established on MacArthur Road with one zip code for the entire township. Norman Yoder, a Pennsylvania government official, unjustly accused an unnamed western Pennsylvania college of having several students who were blinded by the use of drugs. Area teachers, members of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, marched on the state capitol in Harrisburg March 4 for a pay raise. Dr. Frances Schaeffer was injured at her Allentown home in May when a bomb wrapped in newspaper exploded as she picked it up. News 23